Trinity Church Rector Ministers to the Earthly and the Spiritual
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By Suzanne Meyers I’m adding my voice to those predicting Denzel Washington will win Best Actor in this year’s Oscar competition for his role as an alcoholic pilot in the new film Flight. I’ll even the score with my ex-husband who, after leaving Training Day, days after the terror attacks in September 2001, correctly declared
Union worker leads NYC memorial ride to honor first responders, returning vets Most New Yorkers have vivid recollections of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But for Gregg Nolan, then a foreman with Local 15 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, the images of working down at Ground Zero are indelibly etched
A survey of how New Yorkers will observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Sunday, Sept. 9 9/11 2012 Icahn Stadium, Randall’s Island, 911heroesrun.com; 9 a.m., $35 per person The Travis Manion Foundation is sponsoring a 5K run on Randall’s Island to honor the heroes of 9/11. Half of all race proceeds go
Why Cuomo, Bloomberg and even Christie should be talking that day The plan for this year’s 9/11 commemoration sounds an awful lot like last year’s, especially since word came down that no public officials will deliver remarks. No speeches, especially anything deemed “political,” shall mar the reading of the names of those lost on that
Shifting elections away from anniversary date is a mistake The move is shortsighted and contrary to the public interest. The decision in question: shifting the state primary from Tuesday, Sept. 11 to Thursday, Sept. 13. The governor and the state legislature have decided that Sept. 11 is, as the New York Times put it last week, “a